Ghost Slayers

Chapter Fifteen

By Relm

After Zelgadis was shocked Lina put the packs in their chargers. "That should do it. They should be nice and charged for tomorrow."

"Umm... Miss Lina?" Amelia spoke up.

"Yes Amelia?"

"About tonight... What's going to happen to Mister Zelgadis?"

Lina frowned. "What do you mean?"

"Well where is he going to stay the night when we all go?"

Zelgadis had wondered about that too. "What does Slimer do when you leave?"

"He stays here. I hope he sleeps. I don't want to think about what sort of things he could be doing." Lina shuddered. Seeing Slimer dress in drag was one thing, but she knew damn well that Slimer could do just about anything he wanted. 'That little green freak better not be wearing my spare clothes when I'm not here.'

"So I should stay here...?" Zelgadis mussed.

"I do have a bed set up in one of the spare rooms. You know if I'm tired and want to nap... when it's slow." Lina explained laughing nervously.

Amelia, Sylphiel and Filia all glared at her.

"Oh shut up I'm the boss! I should be able to nap if I want to!" Lina snapped at her employees. "Anyway you could sleep there if you want. That is if you need sleep."

"I guess so..." Zelgadis did notice that he was feeling tired. "Do ghosts sleep?"

"I'm sure they do in some form." Lina suggested. "I thought we weren't going to use the 'g' word."

Zelgadis lowered his head. "Well I don't know. I feel tired like it's time to go to bed, but I haven't eaten or drank a thing all day and I'm not hungry or thirsty. More points to support the ghost theory."

Lina resist the urge to zap Zelgadis just so she could smack him. "Anyway Mister doom and gloom, are you going to be okay staying here then?"

"Yeah I think it will be alright." Zelgadis said feeling uneasy. Forgetting most of your life and waking up a ghost was a stressful thing. At the very least if you have to stay somewhere it should be some place you're familiar with. And at that moment Ghost Slayers was the most present thing in his memory. But it was unsettling to think about staying in the building all alone with just Slimer to keep you company. 'Don't be such a baby!' Zelgadis scolded himself. "So where's this bed?"

...

Zelgadis and Slimer watched Lina and the others leave with their cars. As the last car left the parking lot Zelgadis let out a sad sight. This was all so confusing for him and suddenly he felt very needy for company. 'At least I have Slimer.' Of course as Zelgadis thought this he looked around and noticed that Slimer was nowhere in sight. "Slimer?" Zelgadis called out. There wasn't any slimy goo to point Zelgadis in the direction the little green ghost went. 'Where did he go?'

...

Lina kept looking at her rear view mirror as she drove getting further and further away from Ghost Slayers HQ. She felt guilty leaving Zelgadis like that. 'The poor guy's life is a mess. He can't remember much of who he is, he's turned into something like a ghost and when he gets close to getting an answer to explain what happened to him he starts to disappear. Probably feels kinda abandoned right now with all of us taking off like that.' That thought almost made her turn the car around. 'No Slimer is with him so he'll be fine.'

Lina kept driving till she reached her home. It was an old small apartment building. It only had twelve suites, four suites per each of the three floors. Each suite was a corner suit and Lina's was on the third floor.

Though the apartment was small and horribly outdated Lina still loved the place. The decor was so old that it was almost classic, filled with lots of worn wood. The stairs creaked loudly as you climbed them and everything had a musty old smell. It reminded Lina of old libraries.

"I'm home!" Lina called out once she entered her suite. She lived alone and didn't have any pets but still she felt compelled to announce her arrival. Maybe it was because she dealt with ghosts everyday that Lina never really felt alone. You never know when you might have a ghost hiding in your closet or bathroom. She'd had a couple follow her home from work. But that never bothered her much. Plus with how old the building was it just seemed likely that there could be ghosts haunting the place.

The first thing Lina did when she got inside her home was head straight for the kitchen. It's not that she didn't eat anything all day, but Lina ate more than a normal person and more regularly. So getting enough food to keep an army Lina started cooking.

...

Zelgadis frantically looked high and low for the little green ghost. Everywhere he looked he just couldn't find him. "Slimer?" He called out. This was very distressing for Zelgadis.

He kept going down the halls and in and out of doors. Zelgadis must have passed the utility closet like a hundred times till he noticed the slime on the doorknob.

Zelgadis poked his head through the door and saw Slimer asleep in a bucket. The ghost had a snot bubble blowing out of his nose and he was holding onto a mop as though it was a teddy bear.

At that moment Zelgadis felt pretty foolish. 'Why am I so afraid to be alone for?' He made his way over to the room with the bed was. It was a simple furnished room. There was a desk, a lamp and a bed. It looked comfy enough as Zelgadis hopped into it testing its' firmness amazed that he could do so. He laid down and got into a comfortable position closing his eyes as he tried to go to sleep.

CRASH!

Zelgadis' eyes shot right open at the sudden noise and disappeared.

...

After eating a large dinner Lina headed off to her room to get ready for bed. As she entered she didn't even notice a figure suddenly appear out of nowhere.

Zelgadis almost yelled in fright. One moment he was at Ghost Slayers the next he was in Lina's bedroom! He was going to say something until Lina started to unzip her Ghost Slayers jumpsuit slipping it off. He ducked down and got to the floor and sitting right at the foot of the bed.

Lina whom was near the head of her bed was unaware of her sudden visitor.

Zelgadis had no intensions to peek on Lina as she changed but he realized he was sitting facing the vanity mirror. And he could see Lina's reflection as she undressed. He willed himself not to look. But tried as he may he couldn't look away.

Under her Ghost Slayers jumpsuit Lina wore a tight white undershirt and a pair of tight black shorts. She stretched drawing attention to the fact that she was wearing a black lacy bra under that tight undershirt.

Zelgadis gulped. 'Look away. Look away Zelgadis.' But still his gaze failed to advert.

Rummaging around for nightwear Lina went about humming lost in her thoughts. Twice she almost spotted Zelgadis as she got ready.

Zelgadis was lucky that she didn't see him but that didn't calm him transparent heart. It beat wildly as he just starred at Lina's reflection in the mirror. 'If she sees me now she's going to think I'm a pervert.' Of course the idea of just leaving never crossed his mind. He seemed to have forgotten that he could go through walls.

Lina sat on her bed looking at herself in the mirror as she brushed her hair. Her legs hung at the edge of the bed dangling right in front of Zelgadis' face.

Zelgadis was frozen in place. He knew that if Lina looked down she would see him for sure. So he just sat there staring at Lina's calve muscles. 'She has nice legs...' He blushed despite being gripped with fear.

Lina jumped off her bed and took off her shirt.

Zelgadis' eyes were wide as he watched Lina remove her shirt. Her back was to the mirror but on an angle where Zelgadis could see some of that lacy bra.

Lina didn't give Zelgadis much time to dwell on the bra as she took it off and threw it haphazardly on the floor right by Zelgadis.

Zelgadis only saw Lina's bare back she wasn't angled in the way she was before. And quickly she put on her nightshirt. But of course Zelgadis couldn't help but stare at the bra by him. Zelgadis' nose bled as he passed out from his dirty thoughts.

...

Sunlight poured into Lina's bedroom as the morning made its' appearance. Lina groaned as she tried to shield her eyes from the light. 'Forgot to close the curtains again.' She gave up and sat up in her bed while stretching. Hopping off her bed she almost screamed at the site on her floor.

There was Zelgadis asleep on her floor on her throw rug right at the foot of her bed.

"What the hell?" Lina screeched.

"Huh?" Zelgadis woke with a start. He looked up at Lina with a deer and headlights look. "Lina I can explain!" He blushed bright red.

"What? What are you doing here?"

"Okay I was trying to sleep and there was this big crash noise. I guess I got spooked and I ended up here."

Lina's expression softened. 'I knew I should have gone back. Leaving him alone with just Slimer was a bad idea.' "So why did you decide to sleep on my floor? Why didn't you tell me you were here?"

Zelgadis didn't answer he just blushed a deeper red.

Lina glared at him and noticed her bra not too far from him. "You were in here the whole time I was changing?"

"Well seeing how you left your curtains open I'm sure your neighbours saw more than I did." Zelgadis laughed very nervously.

"And how much did you see?" Oh how she wanted to hit him at that moment.

"I didn't see you naked. I swear!" Zelgadis insisted.

"How much did you see?" Lina's voice was getting louder and louder.

"You were wearing shorts a shirt... Then you took off the shirt, and I might have seen part of you in the bra. Then you took off your bra, but I only saw your back! Honestly I'm not a pervert! I swear! I don't do things like this!" Zelgadis insisted. He had his head down waiting for an oncoming hit.

Lina would have hit him, but she couldn't. Unless she shocked him first. "Why the hell would you just hide there? Why didn't you say something?"

"I was too shocked; I don't know how I just appeared here. And then you were there and then you started undressing and I just blanked out and panicked! Then it was too late to say anything."

"So you just decided to sleep there and wait to surprise me in the morning?" Lina mentally looked for things she could use to zap Zelgadis with.

"No I passed out I think. I got a nose bleed. As I said I don't do perverted things like this and well... I think maybe it's been a while since I've dated a girl." He admitted embarrassedly.

"Nosebleed?" Lina blushed herself. She'd seen guys get all funny in the head from pretty girls but she never had that effect on guys. 'It really must have been a long time for him. Damn here I was all angry and now all I can think about is how damn cute he is. Why can't he be an ugly ghost like thing?' She cursed looking down. There on the rug under Zelgadis had what appeared to be a couple dried droplets of blood. "What the hell? That's real blood!"

Zelgadis looked in wonder. "Ghosts can't do that can they?"

"I don't know... But let's take the rug with us when we go to Ghost Slayers." Lina rolled up the small rug and tucked it under her arm.

"Does this mean you're not mad at me anymore?"

Lina tried to glare at Zelgadis while blushing. "I'm still mad, but I've come to a decision. When we get you back to normal I'm going to beat the crap out of you."

Zelgadis laughed nervously. "I guess I have something to look forward to then. So we're not going to tell the others about what happened are we?"

"Oh we're telling them."

Zelgadis paled. "Why?"

"Because unless you can explain how your blood ended up on my bedroom area rug without telling them that you were peaking on me while changing, then we'll have to tell them. But I'll give you until we get to work to think of a plausible lie, and if it's good enough I just might go with it. So think hard Zel, real hard."

'I'm going to be labelled a pervert no matter what...' Zelgadis thought grimly.